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Young People´s Concerts Season 6
Episode 04 – The Latin American Spirit
Bernstein explores the unique Latin flavor of music, highlighting its two key elements: rhythm and color. He illustrates these aspects with excerpts from works by Fernandez, Villa-Lobos, Revueltas, Copland, and himself.
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, March 8, 1963
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Young People´s Concerts Season 6
Episode 03 – Young Performers No.4
Leonard Bernstein introduces three young pianists: Joan Weiner (14), Claudia Hoca (12), and Pamela Paul (13), each performing a movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A Major. These movements are conducted by Yuri Krasnopolsky, Zoltan Rozsnyai, and Serge Fournier, respectively. The program concludes with 16-year-old André Watts playing Liszt’s Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, with Bernstein conducting.
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, January 15, 1963
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Young People´s Concerts Season 6
Episode 02 – What is a Melody?
Leonard Bernstein explores the various forms that melody can take, such as tune, theme, motive, melodic line, and musical phrase. He demonstrates these concepts by conducting the orchestra in excerpts from works by Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Mozart, Hindemith, and Brahms.
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, December 21, 1962
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Young People´s Concerts Season 6
Episode 01 – The Sound of a Hall
Bernstein delves into the topic of acoustics, showcasing the unique sound properties of Philharmonic Hall. The orchestra illustrates these concepts by performing works by Berlioz, Copland, Vivaldi, Walton, and Tchaikovsky.
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, November 21, 1962
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Young People´s Concerts Season 5
Episode 04 – Young Performers No.3
Leonard Bernstein introduces Seiji Ozawa, who conducts the overture to Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro.' The program also features Maurice Peress and John Canarina conducting pieces with Gary Karr on double bass. Bernstein then discusses and conducts 'The Carnival of the Animals' by Camille Saint-Saëns, with guest soloists Ruth and Naomi Segal (piano duo), Tony Cirone (xylophone), David Hopper (glockenspiel), Paula Robison (flute), and Paul Green (clarinet).
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, April 14, 1962
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Young People´s Concerts Season 5
Episode 03 – Happy Birthday Igor Stravinsky
Bernstein provides an overview of Stravinsky's musical career, highlighting the evolution of his style and directional shifts. The entire piece of 'Petrouchka' is performed, with each scene thoroughly analyzed.
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, March 26, 1962
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Young People´s Concerts Season 5
Episode 02 – The Road to Paris
Bernstein explores the lives and works of three composers—George Gershwin, Ernest Bloch, and Manuel de Falla—who lived and created music in Paris around 1900, highlighting how the city influenced their compositions.
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, January 18, 1962
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Young People´s Concerts Season 5
Episode 01 – What is Impressionism?
Bernstein delves into the world of Impressionism in music, examining the techniques and styles of Debussy and Ravel. He conducts the entirety of Debussy’s 'La Mer' and concludes with the final dance from Ravel’s 'Daphnis et Chloé.'
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, November 23, 1961
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Young People´s Concerts Season 4
Episode 04 – Folk Music in the Concert Hall
Leonard Bernstein explores the impact of folk music on orchestral compositions, conducting excerpts from works by Mozart, Chavez, and Ives, as well as "Songs of the Auvergne" performed by Marni Nixon.
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, April 9, 1961
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Young People´s Concerts Season 4
Episode 03 – Young Performers No.2
In the annual Young People's Concert hosted by Leonard Bernstein, the spotlight shines on young performers. The lineup features cellist Lynn Harrell and conductor Elyakum Shapira showcasing music by Dvořák, pianist Jung Ja Kim and conductor Russell Stanger presenting pieces by Chopin, soprano Veronica Tyler and conductor Gregory Millar performing two arias by Puccini and Menotti, and Bernstein himself conducting with Henry Chapin narrating "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" by Britten.
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, March 19, 1961
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Young People´s Concerts Season 4
Episode 02 – Aaron Copland Birthday Party
To commemorate Aaron Copland's 60th birthday, Bernstein explores his musical legacy and leads the Philharmonic in renditions of several iconic pieces. These include "An Outdoor Overture," the "Dogmatic" movement from "Statements," selections from the film "Our Town," "Hoe-Down" from "Rodeo," and stirring performances by baritone William Warfield, who sings "The Boatman's Dance" and "I Bought Me a Cat." To cap off the celebration, Aaron Copland himself conducts "El Salón México."
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, February 12, 1961
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Young People´s Concerts Season 4
Episode 01 – Overtures and Preludes
Following the definition of 'overture,' Leonard Bernstein delves into the intricacies of the genre by analyzing and conducting Rossini's overture to the opera "Semiramide" and Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3. Transitioning to the concept of 'prelude,' Bernstein leads the orchestra in a rendition of Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun." Bringing the program to a close, the audience is treated to a performance of Bernstein's own "Candide" overture."
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, January 8, 1961
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Young People´s Concerts Season 3
Episode 04 – The Second Hurricane
Students from the New York City High School of Music and Art perform Aaron Copland's opera The Second Hurricane. Leonard Bernstein conducts and provides narration for the opera, which concerns the fictional plight of students who became stranded during a relief mission to the site of a natural disaster. Notably, this specific episode had been lost at one time but was recently discovered, thus completing the archive
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, April 24, 1960
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Young People's Concerts Season 3
Episode 3 - Unusual Instruments of the Present, Past & Future
Leonard Bernstein explores the evolution of musical instruments, tracing their development from their primitive origins. The concert commences with Heitor Villa-Lobos' "The Little Train," leading into an exploration of South American percussion instruments. Pieces by Giovanni Gabrieli and Johann Sebastian Bach are employed to showcase the evolution of orchestral instrumentation. Concluding the program, audiences experience Luening and Ussachevsky's "Concerto for Tape Recorder and Orchestra," alongside Bucci's "Concerto for Kazoo," featuring Anita Darian on kazoo.
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, March 27, 1960.
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Young People´s Concerts Season 3
Episode 2 – Young Performers No.1
Leonard Bernstein presents emerging conductors and performers in an engaging showcase. Cellist Daniel Domb delivers a captivating performance of Dvořák's Concerto in B Minor, under the baton of Kenneth Schermerhorn, while Stefan Mengelberg leads the orchestra in the final movement of Wieniawski's Violin Concerto in D Minor, featuring Barry Finclair on violin. To conclude, Bernstein himself conducts Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf," with nine-year-old Alexandra Wager providing narration.
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, March 06, 1960.
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Young People´s Concerts Season 2
Episode 1 – Who is Gustav Mahler?
To mark Mahler's centennial, Leonard Bernstein leads excerpts from Gustav Mahler’s Fourth Symphony while delving into the concept of the 'double man' within him. The orchestra is joined by soprano Reri Grist for a rendition of the final movement of the Fourth Symphony, with William Lewis performing 'Youth' and Helen Raab singing selections from 'The Farewell,' both sourced from Mahler's 'The Song of the Earth' ('Das Lied von der Erde')
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, February 7, 1960
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Leonard Bernstein explores the evolution of the "concerto form" from the era of Bach to the compositions of Bartok. Bernstein proceeds to illustrate this progression by conducting excerpts from early concertos, including Bach's Fifth Brandenburg Concerto and Vivaldi's Concerto in C Major. Moving into the classical period, he presents Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, followed by the finale of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. Concluding his discussion, Bernstein conducts excerpts from the fourth and fifth movements of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra.
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Young People's Concerts Season 2
Episode 3 - Humor in Music
Using excerpts from the likes of Shostakovich, Mahler, Prokofiev, Haydn and others, Leonard Bernstein demonstrates how classical music can be more than a "serious" composition but can take an unexpected humorous turn.
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, February 28, 1959.
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Young People's Concerts Season 2
Episode 2 - What is Classical Music?
Leonard Bernstein conducts Handel's Water Music and cites it as an indisputable example of classical music. He defines classical music using the word "Exact", explaining that “classical music” accurate refers to music written mainly in the eighteenth century. He demonstrates with musical illustrations from Bach's Fourth Brandenburg Concerto, Mozart's Concerto No. 21 in C Major and "The Marriage of Figaro," and Haydn's Symphony No. 102. Bernstein then ends exposing that the decline of classical music is tied to Beethoven's innovations and the Romantic movement, conducting Beethoven's Egmont Overture.
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, January 24, 1959.
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Young People's Concerts Season 2
Episode 1 - What Makes Music Symphonic?
By using the examples of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony and Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, Leonard Bernstein demonstrates the techniques of repetition and variation in the development of symphonic music. After conducting part of Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet" Fantasy Overture, he asks the audience to sing "Frère Jacques," demonstrating the uses of sequence and imitation in symphonic composition. Concluding by playing and analysing the final movement of Brahms' Second Symphony.
Originally aired on CBS Television Network, December 13, 1958.
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